[f. TRANS- + LOCATION.] Removal from one place to another; displacement; dislocation; † transmigration.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 424. Translocation of Christs bodie.
1625. N. Carpenter, Geog. Del., II. x. (1635), 174. A seperation was made by translocation of the parts of the Earth.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 116. All defending the immortality of the Soul, and the translocation from one into another after death.
1677. Cary, Chronol., II. i. I. xx. 152. There is … a casual translocation of the Numbers.
a. 1728. Woodward, Catal. Eng. Fossils (1729), II. 4, marg. There happen’d certain Translocations at the Deluge.
1814. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 80. Translocation is not destruction.
1876. Gladstone, Homeric Synchr., 79. A Revolution involving such extensive change, and such translocation of races.
1877. Foster, Phys., I. ii. § 2 (1878), 79. The muscular contraction itself is essentially a translocation of molecules.
b. Veg. Physiol.: see quots.
1900. B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, Translocation … the transference of reserve material from one part to another.
1913. Webster, Translocation,… transfer of food materials or products of metabolism from one part to another by osmosis.
